Learning about monetary policy rules

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1105-1129

  Bullard, James ^a   Mitra, Kaushik ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Expectational stability; Learning; Monetary policy rules; Optimal monetary policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036741810     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3932(02)00144-7     Document Type: Article

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